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Soldiering & Symbolism

... not directly discussing the relationship between democracy and ethnic conflicts or war, Cynthia Enloe goes into detail about ethnic differences leading to conflict. She also goes on to discuss the inferiority of ethnic groups leading to military servitude in order to advance their social or class status. One thing that she points out is that groups have also been stereotyped into being “prone to soldiering”. These people have been labeled as “Martial races.” An interesting point that she makes about Martial races is that ...

Number of words: 954 | Number of pages: 4

Bless Me Ultima 2

... New Mexico, the more he questions the Christian God and turns towards the golden carp, a pagan god of the river. Rudolfo Anaya is indicating that each man must choose his own religion and destiny, by depicting the changes Tony feels after the deaths of Lupito, Narciso and Florence. Beforehand, Tony never questioned his faith but as each person died Tony turned farther and farther away from Catholicism and eventually even away from the pagan religion. Tony questioned his destiny and effectiveness as a priest, had doubts of the Catholi ...

Number of words: 1665 | Number of pages: 7

The Theme Of Lonliness In Etha

... of the book, he is 52 years old, but is described as looking much older than that. Throughout the main part of the book, which is a flashback, Frome is in his 20's. After the sledding accident with Mattie, he is left with bad vision in his right eye, which causes him trouble sometimes. Ethan Frome stutters and speaks in abbreviated forms sometimes. Most of the people in the town and in the novel speak in abbreviated forms. The actual town itself and the surroundings of Frome are harsh and cold, especially in winter when the book takes ...

Number of words: 934 | Number of pages: 4

Oedipus Rex 3

... Oedipus. Not wanting to do this, the shepherd passed the baby on to another shepherd, who then gave the child to his foster parents, King Polybus and Queen Merope. Thus, Oedipus grows up believing the king and queen to be his real parents. But, fate would inevitably catch up with him. At dinner , a drunken man shout out, “Aha! Sham father’s son!” Hurt, he ran to the oracle at Delphi, where upon he learned of fates’ disgusting plans. Plans to kill his father and to marry his mother. “O I fled from there. ...

Number of words: 880 | Number of pages: 4

1984

... thoughtcrime is the worst crime of all. As the novel opens, Winston feels frustrated by the oppression and rigid control of the Party, which prohibits free thought, sex, and any expression of individuality. He has illegally purchased a diary in which to write his criminal thoughts, and has become fixated on a powerful Party member named O'Brien, whom Winston believes is a secret member of the Brotherhood, the legendary group that works to overthrow the Party. Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, where he alters historical records to fi ...

Number of words: 533 | Number of pages: 2

Crime And Punishment

... towards windows while thinking about something else. This shows that his inside wants to be free and knows the truth about his place among others, while the conscious part of his mind is not able to comprehend that until the very end. His mind is like a “fly as it … [beats] against [a] windowpane” (pg. 332) longing to join the world out there, but not understanding this desire rationally yet. Marmeladov’s room is “suffocatingly hot, but [Katerina] [has] not opened the windows” and in Alyona’s apartment “all the windows … [ ...

Number of words: 835 | Number of pages: 4

Maggie A Girl Of The Streets And Pudd’nhead Wilson

... a Girl of the Streets is about a girl, Maggie, who falls in love with a boy. Maggie lives in a slum and the boy is of higher social status than her. The boy ends up cheating on her and Maggie is destroyed, she is killed in the end. Pudd’nhead Wilson is about 2 boys switched at birth. One was a slave and grew up as a rich white boy, while the other who was the heir to the house grew up a slave. After a murder it was realized who was really who and the mistake was returned to normal. Roxy, the mother in Pudd’nhead Wilson was ...

Number of words: 1004 | Number of pages: 4

Critic On Huckleberry Finn

... the book sound so real that you could confuse it with a autobiography of a little child named Huck. The book Huckleberry Finn was written about a time between 1835s- 50s. This meant that during Huck's time, slavery was still around and most whites during this time do not like blacks. The N- word just literally show us what white people think of blacks at that time. They use this wor! d to verbally express their feelings. However, I am not trying to say that Huck calls Jim a N- because he does not like him. He probably picked it up fro ...

Number of words: 332 | Number of pages: 2

Symbolism In The Glass Menagerie

... describes their location also has a lot of symbolism in its roots because he describes them to be flowering as warty growths in overcrowded urban centers. Tennessee Williams used many symbolic aspects to describe Laura and the world she lives in.In the play,Laura represents the very fragile,shy and emotionally crippled girl.In her mind she lives in a world of glass animals and doesn't have a connection to the real world.The managerie of glass also represents the fragile relationships among all the characters.The glass unicorn is most obviou ...

Number of words: 923 | Number of pages: 4

Blakes London And The Chimney

... labor, religious institutions, individual apathy, prostitution, sexually transmitted diseases, war and marriage are the result of humankind’s carelessness. He explores this point of view particularly in two of his poems “London” and “The Chimney Sweeper” both from “The Songs of Innocence”. He voices his disapproval over these injustices caused by humankind primarily through the use of irony, imagery, symbolism and a clever choice of language. Through a set of literary devices such as imagery and lang ...

Number of words: 931 | Number of pages: 4

Lord Of The Flies: Comparison Of Movie And Book

... remember; in the movie it starts out with a group of boys, from an academy, getting off a survival raft. They are on a suvival raft because their plane crashed. The boy's clothes are torn and they look like they were at sea for days. They arrive at the island and right away they start searching for food and shelter. They are all from America also. In the book it starts out with a boy,from a private school, searching and he meets up with the other boys. They are all British in the book. The one boy, Ralph, meets another boy, "Piggy". Soon af ...

Number of words: 1032 | Number of pages: 4

Bhagavad-Gita: Relationship Between Arjuna And Krishna

... believer to develop a close relationship with his god, allowing “much more opportunity for direct contact between gods and individual worshippers” (Bulliet et al. 199). This is particularly true in the case of the Hindu god Vishnu, known for his benevolence towards worshippers in their time of need. Hinduism evolved from the ancient Vedic religion of the Aryan tribes of northern India (who used ritual sacrifice to develop relationships with gods). Its evolution was completed sometime around the fourth century CE, although the actual tr ...

Number of words: 1168 | Number of pages: 5

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